Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. One such company includes Volvo, which has announced a partnership to recycle old EV batteries into new energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Volvo Group has created the new business area Volvo Energy to strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. Volvo Energy will be a business area with full profit and loss responsibility. —Martin Lundstedt.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Volvo CE AirBurners BioCharger; image via Air Burners. And when you’re tasked with clearing trees, blazing trails, and quite literally laying the foundations of infrastructure and energy grid expansion, there simply isn’t a place to plug in your electric equipment. Enter: the BioCharger.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Volvo Technology of America, LLC. Waste Not, Want Hot?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

Photo: 24M Technologies MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. The approach also improves the batteries’ energy density, safety, and recyclability. Usually, only the more expensive metals are salvaged for reuse.

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